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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

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… took private piano and gymnastic lessons. The family talked about the Jewish problem in Europe and helped the refugees who came from Germany to Lvov…

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… Austria, they would go to the US under one quota and her parents under the Polish quota. They left family in Poland. Erika’s mother was from Schemas…

… family observing Jewish holidays and traditions out of fear the neighbors would find out; the Russian “trampling” on Jewish culture and traditions; new…

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… LINE FIVE: THE INTERNAL PASSPORT The Soviet Jewish Oral History Project of the Women's Auxiliary of the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago NELLA…

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…. Father exported wood. Describes her childhood in a religious, well-to-do family. 1.07 Jewish education. 1.09 Moved to Turka at age 8, learned languages…

… family’s warehouse and offices; the Jewish community of Bou Saâda; attending the public schools, run by French civil servants; how she was about to pass…

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… education and there was domestic help, so she did not seem to have to help with housework. She mentions the arrival of Jewishfamilies expelled by the…

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… investigated his brother’s wife but he didn’t. That may mean that the family was angry that he had married a non-Jewish woman or something like that. Anyway Meir…

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…: So we have Goldberg and a Goldring? A: Lots of gold in my family, right! Q: What was your father’s business? A: My father was in the men’s and ladies…

… towns to Jewishfamilies in the ghetto; his experiences in Auschwitz and Gleiwitz and subsequent hardships in the labor camps; being liberated by the…

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… goods from nearby towns to Jewishfamilies in the ghetto; his experiences in Auschwitz and Gleiwitz and subsequent hardships in the labor camps; being…

… Žilina, Slovakia, where they stayed with a Jewishfamily for a week; receiving help from the underground network; traveling by train and foot across the…

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… were not Jewish. His friends also came to his apartment to play. The family left Benjin when war broke out. The summer of ’39 nothing special happened…

…’s occupation as a tailor; the Jewish and gentile relations before the war; the beginning of the war in 1942; the persecution of Jews; her family’s move to…

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… Toronto, Canada. That wasn’t pretty – Q: Did you have family there? A: No. That wasn’t pretty either. The Jewish Federation helped bring you over. And when…

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… whether the father abandoned the family to fight in the war or was an idealistic person with Socialist tendencies and wanted to fight fascists in Spanish…

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.